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...Came to Dinner (Warner) continues the glorification of that rococo personality, Monty Woolley-known to his friends as "The Beard." As Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside, of George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's cutthroat comedy (TMWCTD), Actor Woolley merely transfers to celluloid, for the exquisite benefit of cinemaddicts and posterity, the unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott which he played for two years on Broadway. The switch from Broadway to Hollywood is scarcely noticeable...
...almost everyone knows by now, TMWCTD is the tale of a famous crosscountry lecturer who is forced to go to a dull dinner party in Mesalia, Ohio, injures a hip on his hosts' icy steps, and has to stay for weeks. The part, originally created for Woollcott himself, has by this time become at least half Woolley...
...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...
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